No More Mixing: German Grenadiers with Vallejo Xpress [How I Paint Things]

When Citadel's Contrast came out, I spent a couple of weeks tweaking, testing, and adjusting the ratios on a bottled mix of three different colours to get 'Contrast Feldgrau.' It looks pretty good, but it's definitely a lot more tweaking and fuss than I'd prefer out of a 'one coat' solution. Enter Vallejo Xpress' Wave 2 releases - the colours I think we were all waiting for!

Are they the magic bullet? I guess that depends on how this all looks to your eye! But it certainly fits the bill for me!

00:00 - Intro
01:03 - Priming & Prep Basecoats
03:12 - Painting the Camo
05:39 - Painting Equipment & Uniform
08:35 - Highlights & Extra Touches
10:15 - The Finished Grenadier

Thanks to Producer Patrons Alan, Kyrie, Andrew, Jimmy, Rod, Phil, Robison, Woodcock, David Kinney, and Matt Dischner - as well as all the other Patrons that made this video possible, and Exit23 Games for recording equipment that helps keep the channel ticking over! Find out more at the following links:

THE BASE: PVA and sand, painted with Flat Brown, heavily overbrushed Brown Sand, then drybrushed Dark Sand. Dots of PVA again to add some static grass, and done!

PAINTS USED:

PRIMER:
Premium Grey (Vallejo Spray Can)

VALLEJO:
Off-White
Bag of Bones (Xpress)
Armor Green (Xpress)
Willow Bark (Xpress)
Rotten Flesh (Xpress)
Wasteland Brown (Xpress)
Battledress Brown (Xpress)
Camouflage Brown (Xpress)
Landser Grey (Xpress)
Dark Gunmetal (Game Color)

CITADEL:
Wraithbone (Base)
Guilliman Flesh (Contrast)
Black Legion (Contrast)
Flayed One Flesh (Layer)

ARMY PAINTER:
Slaughter Red (Speedpaint)

VARNISHES:
Varnish+ (Instar)

[thepiratepenguin]

The rifle looks so real, it is definitely a nice colour for painting wood.

[mobileandhostile]

⭐️Thanks for this…of all the colours you used that wood colour for the rifle just got immediately added to my shopping list⭐️ 👍

[johnkelley]

The Vallejo Xpress colors are very impressive and the colors look great.I especially like the Landser Grey and the color for the rifle as they look very realistic. Thanks for sharing this.

[ARed-TailedHawk]

Awesome tutorial and glad to see some more WW2 stuff! Thank you!

[TheEccentricMan]

What a very big time saver and an excellent look to boot. I might have looked for a more field green colour for the uniform but that doesn't detract from an excellent tutorial.

[Vorpal_Wit]

You never fail to make me want to paint, Sir.

[vogless]

This channel is fantastic. Plain and simple. SO excited about these colors! Just in time too, starting another German project as we speak.

[alteleier]

Nice Paintjob as always 😁, but Look at the right Hand of the Grenadier, its a claw 😂😂

[leemangan]

That is superb! I’m a recent convert to Xpress thanks to your vids, Ifind them easier to work with than Speedpaint. I appreciate the extra touches and detail that you give to your figures, a satisfying attention to detail without being a rivet counter.

[Jim-ykif]

Wow, it looks so good! Thanks for sharing this experimentation! And the release of the second wave of Vallejo Express somehow escaped my attention - looks like there is some paint buying in my future. 🙂

[Fredeye]

Whimsical names noted. I like the brown on the rifle. Great job as always.

[Perponcher]

You make it look so easy. The sign of a master!

[sinquup]

Thank you for posting that with such immaculate timing – my grenadiers arrive this week and I'm off to my FLGS tonight, so can pick up the paints. 😊

[garypilkington]

Thank you for this! I am getting ready to paint some Warlord German Grenadiers so this was a very useful video. Should make the painting quicker and better!

[loupiscanis]

Thank you , Troy .

🐺Loupis Canis .

[MrJstinnett]

So glad I found your tutorials. I bought the express paints and speed paints but was rarely using them if at all. Not anymore!!! I looked but couldn’t find just a normal grey German soldier. Did I miss it? Thank you thank you!!

[samsolopeeps]

Defo some useful paints in the range,

[alessiodecarolis]

It's a classic mid-war grenadier, its camo is an early war 's zeltbahn, and the rifle seems one of the first semi -auto that the Wermacht tried on the Eastern front. Would be interesting seeing how these new colours are with some of the more famous camos, such as the "Oak Leaf" one, either the Autumn or the Spring version.👍

[horatio_]

Love this series, agree rare to xpress color tutorials. I’d like to see third edition xpress examples Ty

[MarcsMinis]

Love your guides. Helps me with some great ideas